The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-14
FLORIDA.

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! FLORIDA.
Crops in Leon county are reported good
| thus far.
Propositions to buy out the Wakulla
| phosphate beds have been received from two
| railroad companies.
NJ: Russell, of Leon county, planted six
acres in watermelon3 and peas this year,
| especially for his hogs.
| Alex Roussell is in Tallahassee in the in
terest of bill before the Legislature grant
| ing $4,000 aid to the Florida exhibit at Lon
| don.
A Young Mems Christian Association was
organized at the Methodist church at ITALIA
hasSee last Sunday, with DR.. Hunt as Presi-
dent
j. NJ Lee will not conduct the New
| Everett Hotel at Jacksonville next season,
but will apply his whole attention to Hotel
Indian River at Rockledge. G.. McAvoy,
of the Montvert Hotel, Rutland, Vt, will
manage the Everett the coming season.
| The Sanford Council held special meet
| ing Wednesday for the purpose of extending
| the time for the water works company to ac-
| cept the ordinance recently passed giving
| franchise to that company. The time was
extended for period of thirty days from
next Saturday.
A sparring match was engaged in at
Sanford Wednesday evening between Ar
thur Schleman, OF Sanford, and Edgar
| Lewis, of Americas. About five rounds
We're fought, and Schleman came out first
| best. The amount of money won and lost
was not very considerable.
Nat Walker, of the Walxulla Times. has
| received the appointment of Government
Clerk at Otoe, Pawnee Panco Agency, In
dian Territory, with good fat salary and
| plenty of government rations. He has been
| ordered to report at once for duty, and will
leave next Tuesday for Indian Territory
| Mrs. Walker and the baby will remain in
Florida until further arrangements are
| made for them
Z. T. Lane, of Palatka, had a deaf and
dumb caller on Tuesday night that furnished
| a great deal of amusement for his friends
and neighbors A number of ladies and
! gentlemen made dummy and dressed it
up in the latest style This was propped
| against post OF the piazza, the door bell
| rang and the crowd retired to await de-
velopments. The "caller" refusing to speak,
| Mr. Lane was about to make short work of
him, and actually collared the dummy
before he caught on to the joke. The merry
laughter of the crowd around the corner of
the house furnished satisfactory solution
of the visitors presence.
The old joke Of carrying unsuspecting
innocents into swamps on the pretense of
catching snipe has been practiced so often
| that nearly everybody is into the "sell, u and
| it is pretty hard matter to get a victim.
Some of the PalatIa boys, however, have
! been coaching young man in town for sew
! eral days and last night they took him out
beyond the junction to initiate him into the
mysteries of snipe hunting. He was given
an old corn sack and light, and stationed
| as far into the swamp as it was possible to
go, where he was left while his companions
| went off to drive the snipe. They returned
to the city in great glee over the success of
their joke, and the victim doubtless kept
long and silent vigil for the snipe that never
| came.
Pensacola's post Office will be moved into
the governments new building Saturday
| night. A large quantity of the furniture is
already on hand, and the different pieces
are being placed in position as fast as the
handlers can determine their respective as
signments. A large lot Of special furniture
| for all the departments has yet to arrive
All of the furniture is of cherry, and very
handsomely finished Mr. Yonge says the
letter carrier service will positively be in
augurated by July /, the failure of the gem
eral deficiency bill to pass in the last Con
gress having the effect of delaying it to
that time, The whole building will be COM
pleted by June IS, and the customs and
other departments will be occupied July l.
Contractor s. S. Leonard has begun work
on the approaches, which will be finished in
about three weeks.
At Crescent City the young oranges are
dropping from the trees, yet it is thought
enough will remain TO make fair yield
Fruit and vegetable growers are Jealous in
| their efforts to exterminate the orange in
sects, destroy the weeds and grass and other
wise assist their groves and truck farms to
make them n livelihood, No country can
show more industrious people than reside in
this section of Florido. A preparation of
lime, sulphur, carbolic acid and copperas
applied TO the trunk and branches
OF the citrus family with a
the scale and other destructive in
scots so much dreaded by the orange grow
ers The budding and grating of orange
and other trees is quite an industry through
out the State. An expert young man will
earn 50 80 to 81 30 per day. The charges
vary from 1c 10 2c. for each bud or graft
inserted
About April the Arredondo land grant
was announced as having been placed on
the market. subject TO entry. Tho land
| consists OF -, 900 acres lying in Columbia
| county. The result of the announcement Of
this land having been placed on the market
WINS followed by a rush TO the United States
LanG Oltico in Gainesville by parties who
| were DESTROYS OF homesteading farms for
themselves. IN the short space OF one
month large portion of the land was taken
up, and many persons thought they were to
have good aud permanent homes. But
second letter from Land Commissioner
Sparks. Of Washington, caused u sudden
change in the aspect Monday evening
letter was received from headquarters stat
ing That the first letter, placing the land on
the market, had been written misnnder-
a standiIs&ly and that the land is not on the
market and POI subject 10 entry. The let
tyr ~ Observation-Disclosures and there is nothing
IAft to4i3 bu TO undo what has been done.